Bug 105667

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

I wasn't sure which product this should come under as it concerns several.

I frequently download and view several document formats from the internet, like most users do. I find the kpdf interface easy to use and fast so I use this to view pdfs. It cannot view ps files, so I use kghostview to look at these. This can't view dvi files though, so I use kdvi for this.

Although I think these 3 applications are great, the interfaces for these 3 programs share a great deal of overlap. For example, page thumbnail views, zooming, page orientation/size etc. However, these are all slightly different besides offering the same basic abilities, which isn't good for usability or general integration.

What I would like to see is a good standard generic document viewer interface which takes the best parts from these three applications, which then allows kdvi, kghostview or kpdf to do the actual rendering of the document pages. For example, so one could use a single application with an interface similar to kpdf's to view dvi, ps and pdf files. The user shouldn't care about which document format they are looking at, they just want to read the document. Having different interfaces for each file type isn't good usability.